The Selected Poems of Yvor Winters

by Winters, Yvor; Barth, R. L.; Barth, R. L.

• ISBN13: 9780804010139
• ISBN10: 0804010137
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: Ohio Univ Pr

Summary

Yvor Winters (1900-1968) was a friend, colleague, and teacher to poets of several generations from Hart Crane and Allen Tate to J. V. Cunningham, Turner Cassity, and Edgar Bowers to Robert Hass, Philip Levine, and Robert Pinsky.
This retrospective of one hundred poems, edited by the poet and publisher R. L. Barth, is compiled from Winters's published and unpublished work and features an introductory overview of his life and career by Helen Pinkerton Trimpi, a former student of Winters's and a distinguished scholar of American literature.

Table of Contents

The Dedication	p. v
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Introduction: Yvor Winters as Critic and Poet	p. xvii
Two Songs of Advent	p. 1
One Ran Before	p. 2
Song for a Small Boy Who Herds Goats	p. 3
Alone	p. 4
Winter Echo	p. 5
Spring Rain	p. 5
The Aspen's Song	p. 5
God of Roads	p. 5
A Deer	p. 5
The Precincts of February	p. 6
Jose's Country	p. 7
The Upper Meadows	p. 8
Moonrise	p. 9
The Cold	p. 10
Digue Dondaine, Digue Dondon	p. 11
Nocturne	p. 13
"Quod Tegit Omnia"	p. 14
Song ("Where I walk out")	p. 15
April	p. 16
The Cold Room	p. 17
The Barnyard	p. 18
The Rows of Cold Trees	p. 19
Prayer beside a Lamp	p. 20
Vacant Lot	p. 21
The Deep: A Service for All the Dead	p. 22
Demigod	p. 23
Orange Tree	p. 24
Song of the Trees	p. 25
The Goatherds	p. 26
The Vigil	p. 27
Simplex Munditiis	p. 28
Sonnet ("This God-envenomed loneliness, the stain")	p. 29
The Moralists	p. 30
The Realization	p. 31
To William Dinsmore Briggs Conducting His Seminar	p. 32
The Invaders	p. 33
The Castle of Thorns	p. 34
Apollo and Daphne	p. 35
The Empty Hills	p. 36
Moonrise	p. 37
Inscription for a Graveyard	p. 38
The Last Visit	p. 39
For Howard Baker	p. 40
The Slow Pacific Swell	p. 41
The Marriage	p. 43
On a View of Pasadena from the Hills	p. 44
The Journey	p. 47
A Vision	p. 49
Anacreontic	p. 52
To a Young Writer	p. 53
For My Father's Grave	p. 54
By the Road to the Air-Base	p. 55
Elegy on a Young Airedale Bitch Lost Some Years Since in the Salt-Marsh	p. 56
Midas	p. 57
Sonnet to the Moon	p. 58
Before Disaster	p. 59
The Prince	p. 60
Phasellus Ille	p. 61
Orpheus	p. 62
On the Death of Senator Thomas J. Walsh	p. 63
Dedication for a Book of Criticism	p. 64
A Leave-Taking	p. 65
On Teaching the Young	p. 66
Chiron	p. 67
Heracles	p. 68
Alcmena	p. 70
Theseus: A Trilogy	p. 71
Socrates	p. 76
John Day, Frontiersman	p. 78
John Sutter	p. 79
The California Oaks	p. 81
On Rereading a Passage from John Muir	p. 83
The Manzanita	p. 84
Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight	p. 85
An October Nocturne	p. 87
Much in Little	p. 88
The Cremation	p. 89
An Elegy	p. 90
Time and the Garden	p. 92
A Prayer for My Son	p. 93
In Praise of California Wines	p. 94
A Summer Commentary	p. 95
On the Portrait of a Scholar of the Italian Renaissance	p. 96
A Winter Evening	p. 97
Summer Noon: 1941	p. 98
To a Military Rifle	p. 99
For the Opening of the William Dinsmore Briggs Room	p. 101
At the Site of the Murphy Cabin	p. 102
Moonlight Alert	p. 103
To the Holy Spirit	p. 104
A Song in Passing	p. 106
At the San Francisco Airport	p. 107
To Herbert Dean Meritt	p. 108
Bibliography of Yvor Winters's Books of Poetry	p. 109
Notes	p. 111
Index of Poem Titles and First Lines	p. 125
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